Dr Teresa Prudente

2000: First Class Degree with Honour (110 cum laude) in Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Turin. Title of the final dissertation: "The loss of innocence: consciousness facing experience in Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen". Supervisor: Prof. Franco Marenco.

2006: Phd in Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Turin. Title of dissertation: "A specially tender piece of eternity": the experience of a-linear time in Virginia Woolf and André Gide. Supervisor: Prof. Carla Marengo Vaglio and Prof. Mariolina Bertini. 2007: named Assistant Specialist in English Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Universityof Turin.

2009-2011: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Turin. Project: "Polyphony and the structuring of the point of view in the European literature of the 20th century"

SCHOLARSHIPS

2009-2011: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Turin. Sponsored by the private foundation CRT, Turin. Project: “Polyphony and the structuring of the point of view in the European Literature of the twentieth century”. [Selected for renewal for the year 2010/2011 after evaluation of the publications for the year 2009]

June 2009: travel fund from Fordham University, New York, to take part to the 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf.

April 2009: scholarship from the Joyce Research Centre (UCD, Dublin) to attend the 2009 James Joyce Research Colloquium (Dublin, 16-19 April 2009).

June 2008:travel fund from the Italian James Joyce Foundation to take part to the International Conference "James Joyce and Italy", Saint-Gérand-le Puy, 28-29 june 2008.

2002-2005: three year monthly scholarship from the University of Turin for the PhD course in Comparative Literature;

1998-1999: nine month scholarship from the European Commission to spend the Academic year as a visiting student at Royal Holloway, University of London.

MEMBERSHIPS

The James Joyce Italian Foundation; The Modern Studies Association; The European Network for Comparative Literary Studies, Associazione Italiana di Anglistica, European Society for the Study of English, The British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS), The British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA).

ACADEMIC TEACHING:

2009-2010

- Teaching Assistant in English Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Turin. Duties: co-supervision of Degree dissertations in English Literature (fields: Modernism, cinema and literature), conduction of exams, member of examination boards for Bachelor Degree (BA).

- Teaching Assistant in American Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Turin. Duties: co-supervision of Degree dissertations in American Literature (fields: Modernism, women’s literature), conduction of exams, member of examination boards for Bachelor Degree (BA).

- Teaching Fellow in Italian Literature at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Turin. Duties: teaching of seminars of stylistic analysis; organization of courses, conduction of written exams.

2008 – 2009

- Teaching Assistant in English Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Turin.

- Teaching Assistant in American Literature, the Faculty of Humanities, University of Turin.

- Teaching Fellow of Italian Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Turin.

2007 - 2008

- Teaching Assistant in English Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Turin.

- Teaching Assistant in American Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Turin.

- Teaching Fellow in English Language, Faculty of Humanities, Sciences of Communication, University of Turin. Duties: teaching and organization of undergraduate courses; conduction of both oral and written final exams.

2007 – 2006 / 2005-2006

Teaching Fellow in English Language, Faculty of Humanities, Sciences of Communication, University of Turin.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

October 2008 – November 2008: Collaboration to the organization of the International Symposium “La lingua delle origini”/ “The Language of Origins” (6-7 November 2008), Department of Sciences of Literature and Comparative Literature, University of Turin.

2009-2010: in the host organizing committee for the 10th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE 10), University of Turin, 24-28 August 2010.

Languages:

Italian: mother tongue;
English: near native written and spoken [TOEFL score - 2009 - 111/120];
French: very good written and spoken;
Latin and Greek: able to read and translate

Teaching areas:

English Literature and Language

American Literature

Italian Literature and Language

Critical theory

Research areas:

English Literature (modernism, Woolf, Joyce, Mansfield, Bowen)

French Literature (Gide)

Italian Literature (Gadda, Dante)

Critical Theory and Philosophy (Theory of the novel, Stream of Consciousness, time and the novel, epistemological implications of tropes)

Conferences:

Invited plenary talks:

"Woolf and Joyce: New Perspectives for a Dynamic Comparison" (provisional), Bridging the Gap, Minding the Context, International Post-graduate Conference, University of Vigo, 17-18 March 2011.

Panel "London in Motion"at The 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Fordham University, New York, 4-7 June 2009.

Panel “Human/Animal Borders” at The British Society for Literature and Science 2010 Conference, Newcastle, 8-10 April 2010.

Papers:

1) "'On or about': Woolf, Prepositions, and Patterns of Temporal De-categorizations", The December 1910 Centenary Conference, University of Glasgow, 10-12 December 2010.

2) “The sense of a world continuing without us”: Impersonality, Permanence and Fluidity in The Waves, Woolf Contemporaine/A Contemporary Woolf, organized by The French Virginia Woolf Society, Aix-en-Provence (Université d’Aix-Marseille I), 18-19 September 2010.

4) “From “The Aloe” to “Prelude” and from “The Moths” to The Waves: Drafts, Revisions and the Process of “becoming-imperceptible” in Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield”, “Archive”, British Comparative Literature Association XII International Conference, University of Kent, 5-8 July 2010.

5) "'Through the incertitude of the void': 'Ithaca' and Lucretius's "Poetics of the Void", XXII International James Joyce Symposium, Charles University, Prague, 13-18 June 2010.

6) “Voicing the Inhuman: Lucretius, Heisenberg and The Waves”, The British Society for Literature and Science 2010 Conference, Newcastle, 8-10 April 2010.

8) "And myriads of things merged in one thing": Metonymy, Accumulation and Displacement in Mrs. Dalloway, The 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Fordham University, New York, 4-7 June 2009

9) ““To know is to deform reality” the Epistemology of a Transforming and Transformable Reality in Joyce and Gadda”, The Second James Joyce Graduate Conference, organized by the James Joyce Italian Foundation, Rome, 1-3 February 2009;

10) “Transmuting Languages: the Re-definition of Realism from Petronius to Joyce and Gadda.”, International Conference“James Joyce et l’Italie/James Joyce Voyage to Italy”, organized by the Carma Research Centre, Université de Lyon 2, St. Gérard de Puy, 28-29 June 2008;

14) “”For what could be more formidable than that space?”: the (Feminine) Artistic Re-creation of Space in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”, Colloque International “Entre terreurs et passions: construction/déconstruction de l’espace européen”, Institut de Recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes, Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, 11-13 October 2007

15) “To write is always to rave a little”: the Hallucinatory Point of View in Elizabeth Bowen’s and Virginia Woolf’ s Writing”, Symposium "Folly”, XI International Conference of The British Comparative Literature Association, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2-5 July 2007.

16) “Inextricably the same”: the Visual and Verbal Representation of Intimacy in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”, Symposium “Intimacy: Representations in literature and the visual arts”, Paris 7 Denis-Diderot, France, June 28-30, 2007.

7) T. Prudente, ““To slip easily from one thing to another”: Experimentalism and Perception in Virginia Woolf’s Short Stories”, Journal of the Short Story in English, n. 50, Spring 2008, p. 171-183. ISSN 0294-0442

23-25) T. Prudente, “Identity in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”, “Memory in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”, “Gender in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”, in McClinton-Temple J. ed., General Themes in Literature, Facts on File Inc, New York, 2010. (under contract)